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Life skills are psychosocial abilities which fosters personal and social development. Promoting Life skills helps equip young people to face the demands and challenges everyday, and to adapt with changing circumstances effectively. Adolescence is the transitional phase from childhood to adulthood, the phase of storm and stress and the search for self or identity, but scuccumb to peer pressure, substance abuse and highrisk behaviors. Life skills serves as an efficious tool for the adolescents to act responsibly and take control of their emotions and behaviour. The present study was done to assess the level of Life skills among adolescents in selected Government schools at south chennai. This is a Univariate, cross sectional, Expost facto research. The study involved 888 adolescents(428 boys and 460 girls), studying in grade 8 and 9, aged 13 to 15 years from five Government schools, selected through stratified random sampling technique. Standardised Life skills assessment scale (LSAS) by Subasree and Radhakrishnan (2014) with 100 items was used for data collection. Results showed that 97.16% of adolescents in the study possessed very low, low and average Life skills. 2.8% of adolescents in the study had high life skills and NONE of them had very high life skills, t test analysis showed that boys had low Life skills than girls (p<0.01). The implication of the study emphasizes a strong need for counseling and psychosocial intervention for adolescents at school level.